These pages are dedicated the the memory of a superb hunter
killer, Captain Frederick John Walker. Affectionately known as Captain
"Johnnie
Walker". These pages are also dedicated to the memory of all the lads
who served
under him in World War 2. If you would like to, a donation towards the
running of the site would be gratefully received. Click on Contact above for
more details.
Click on the relevant poppy's below to proceed. All info is either obtained
online,
with due credit, or from members of his elite crews, for whom I am so
grateful.

October 2009. UK TV Channel 4 recently ran a series of
documentaries on the Battle of the Atlantic. And never has such drivel been
written about this than anywhere else! According to the programme makers the
Americans deciphered Enigma (Tell that to the scientists at Bletchley Park from
where we passed on all relevant intercepts to the Americans). Also it
claimed the Americans
invented the Hunter Killer Group and, along with the Canadians, won the Battle
of the Atlantic!!! Mind blowing rubbish! Captain Johnnie Walker RN, not even mentioned in the
programme, was the successful 'inventor' of this concept. He operated this
highly successful Group (2nd Support Group) whilst the Americans sat on their
fun fairs on Coney Island, eating their hot dogs, being watched by the very U
Boat commanders, loitering offshore, on the surface, that the Americans had
supposedly vanquished. Indeed, it was Bletchley Park who warned the USA that
several U Boats were then en-route to the Eastern Seaboard to attack US shipping,
the Americans did nothing! And 500 ships and crews were lost as a direct
consequence. If this programme is an example of the Channel 4 production researchers, they
should be sacked as completely trivialising the role played by the Royal Navy,
The Merchant Navy, The Royal Canadian Navy and our sailors from all over the
word and our own Code Breakers. The
whole programme was a complete fabrication from beginning to end. Pathetic
rubbish.

Wikipedia is a valuable source online of information
regarding many millions of topics BUT it is only a person's opinion and believe it at your peril. Somebody out
there is intent on blackening the name of Capt Walker. I removed some lies and
libellous comment, informing his grandson at the time, who thanked me. That
correction had been removed and the libellous content replaced. Wikipedia is a
tool for people who wish to publish politically generated claptrap and lies.
Walker WAS a hero, IS a hero and some people do not like it. After speaking to
an editor who contacted me on a different topic, the offending remarks have
finally been removed. Pages are listed below the slideshow. My web sites dont blow whistles, don't sing to you,
don't flash in your eyes or even 'look pretty' but what they do is give you the
information you are seeking without dressing it up.

11. Capt Walker's Old Boys Association
- Laying Up Of The Standard 10th July 2004

12.
Bootle
Town Hall Press Releases etc

13. Six In One
Trip!

14. HMS Stork.
Images by DA Bell who served on board her. Never before seen
pictures from his son Len!

15. Loch Killin & Loch
Fada

16. A Hunting We Will Go
- A Narrative By Phil Teece

17. Walker RN - Chap 1 - 3
(Now Out Of Print) I have been unable to find out who actually owns
copyright as certain publishers have not bothered to reply to
me those that did pointed me in a particular direction from
which I received no replies to persistent emails. For the sake
of history, and remembrance, here it is.

Walker RN
- Chap 4 - 6

Walker RN
- Chap 7 - 9

Walker RN
- Chap 10 -12

Walker RN
- Chap 13 - 14

Walker RN
- Chap 15 - End

Walker RN
- Now out of print, copied here to commemorate
the 60th Anniversary of Walker's death on 9th July 1944. I was lucky enough to
obtain a first edition of this book. Despite numerous attempts, hundreds of
emails, to find the copyright owner, if any, the search came to naught, no
replies. Click on the links above to read.

In Headquarters
Western Approaches I have added a
few of
photo's taken by me on a visit there
on July 8th 2003.
That page is dedicated to:
2004740 Leading Aircraftswoman Patricia Elizabeth Lane WRAF

That
when war comes to a country there is only one course for its people to
take, and that is to fight as hard as they can until it is won, or
lost. That it is necessary for the sacrifice, the unselfish and
continuing effort and the heroism of deliberate courage to be recorded
so that it cannot ever be forgotten. That the strain, discomfort and
boredom which are the three predominant factors in modern warfare
cannot be brought into their true perspective in a book of this kind,
or it would be so long and dull that nobody would read it. That there
is no glory to be had out of war that cannot be had out of some
greater and more creative enterprise. That nothing will ever
compensate us for the men we have lost, not even the way so many of
them died. They were ready to die because they wanted to save their
children and their children's children from future wars. The least
and the most that any of us can do is to devote ourselves to finding a
complete and lasting peace, and then to maintaining it with all our
energy. - Lt Comd (Sir) Peter Scott.
The Battle Of The Narrow Seas 1945.

If you have any newspaper
cuttings of anything to do with Capt Walker, I would be most grateful for a
copy!